The relationship between Delhi police commissioner Bhim Sain Bassi and the Aam Aadmi Party deteriorated on Friday when the ruling party alleged that the city’s top cop was involved in an act of corrup
The relationship between Delhi police commissioner Bhim Sain Bassi and the Aam Aadmi Party deteriorated on Friday when the ruling party alleged that the city’s top cop was involved in an act of corruption.
Reacting to the allegation, a visibly furious Bassi said that he will take the “cheats” to the “graveyard.”
AAP Greater Kailash legislator Saurabh Bhardwaj alleged in the Assembly that Mr Bassi had got a flat in a cooperative group housing society by allegedly flouting rules in collusion with the officers of the Registrar of Cooperative Societies in 1979. He demanded a CBI probe against Mr Bassi.
Deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia said he had sought details on the issue from the Registrar of Cooperative Societies. “I had called for related files. I was told some files have gone missing,” Mr Sisodia said.
The top cop, however, asserted that the property in question is “purely legitimate and was lawfully acquired.”
“I will have to get information and a reply will be given. CP (commissioner of police) Delhi cannot work by hiding. CP Delhi works standing on the streets. I have never cheated and shall never get scared of such allegations. Will take such cheats to the graveyard of the cheats,” Mr Bassi told reporters.
Defending himself, the city police commissioner added: “The flat was legitimately allotted to me. When I had applied for the property, I did not know whose property I will get. It was a matter of chance that the membership of Kamal Mehra, whose property I was allotted, was dismissed by the society’s general body.”
On the second allegation that he had illegally become a member of another housing society in Greater Noida launched by some Delhi IAS officers, he clarified that he was in Chandigarh.
He hit out at the AAP government and said that any perception that the police would stop acting as per law following such attempts of “suppression was wrong.”
“I am open for any debate in this issue, with whosoever it be — including the chief minister. My only point is that if you want to fight me, fight as per law, why resorting to such unreasonable ways,” the police commissioner said, adding that such tactics are not going to impact his work.
The AAP legislators demanded action against Mr Bassi for his “graveyard” remarks. However, Leader of Opposition Vijender Gupta defended the police commissioner, stating that the allegations were “politically motivated.”
